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• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, who used to be a professor here in ... wanted to major in, and, hey, if one of the professors in the department ... this is going. Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  so much to be done. That drive to achieve and make the most of any ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  forward to in the next two years. PC: Chheangkea Ieng.   Best ... ; This semester has been by far the toughest, most challenging to date ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... spot in the class. However, I did manage to sign up for some Student Art

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  grab my iPad and go to the decision website in anticipation. It's 9 ... curiosity, I click the button anyways. And I got in. The beginning notes to Another Believer by Rufus Wainwright begins to play in the background

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  world is a double-edged sword. You get to be around some of the most ... matter is, as much as I love being in the Bubble Universe (where else can ... -year-old-brother) likes to come up here is to play in the Simmons Hall ball pit: (I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  “So what’s being a blogger like?” i spill the (lukewarm) tea

  

  , which I think is okay; we don't all have to find community in the same ... what blogging is like, how the job works, and how it feels to be famous ... photoshop Jeremy's avatar to look more like Eminem. The level of activity in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  house to work. This is not the point of the story, though. The point is ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the following conversations can literally happen nowhere else in the world. So a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ,[/annotation] in addition to the new stress of an unexpected return to family life ... juniors we were all pretty much in the same spot. None of us would be going ... the first friend in the group to suggest the idea of taking a Leave of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  culinary horizons!) Work Next week is my last week in the lab (which is to ... , fast processor, colorful. I'm totally going to have the most stylish ... about 80 to go. And then, I have to manipulate the data in Excel so I can

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  average in most of the programs is around five and a half years, but there ... to say, since this blog's title is not "The Counting Crows are Life ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later ... . It's all free, too. But the thing is, you have to move fast. Running ... 't posted in awhile, and hey, I don't think I was hired because I'm the most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  , because everything almost felt too purposeful. Most of the art I made was to ... play, I started adding fun to responsibility. I’ve turned in most of my ... taught me how to use the kiln in the Edgerton 4-409 makerspace. When

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  begging   I think it is too soon to be counting the months. I think ... over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This ... time to get lost. Not in the grand sense of the word, either, just that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... note: if you’re ever in an exam and you don’t know the answer to a ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  the block to get in for the chance to talk, face-to-face, with these ... cookies, but in the end, most of the people are there for the cool kids: the ... burn up in the atmosphere? SpaceX is working on reusable rockets that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  acceptance rate is 8.2% overall. Now, I'm not the top kid in my school and I ... that everyone has an 8.2% chance of getting in? No! The 8.2% is the ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster to its lower left, the one that starts "THIS ACCESS POINT", is in ... "ENTERING 12" signs, which is hard to identify because, in the US, pixel fonts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . You see, one of the things I want most to get out of freshman year is to ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... . But one of the things I learned to do in Design/Build/Fly was soldering

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  the day after putting in 45k steps. This is the part where I say to ... October until the races in January which definitely sucked but it was much ... :( We both knocked out the half and wandered back to the hotel in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016